Book quotes 📖
bookquotes.bsky.social
Book quotes 📖
@bookquotes.bsky.social
Small excerpts I like from whatever I am currently reading. Posted manually. I read in English, French, Spanish and Romanian. All genres.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

— Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
May 2, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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I lost access to this account for a while, but I managed to recover it and will go back to posting the quotes I like.

I’m reading Proust in French nowadays (among other things).
April 29, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
August 30, 2023 at 7:54 PM
It was, in part, a longing--common enough among the inventors of heroes--to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved.

- Kavalier & Clay
August 29, 2023 at 2:57 PM
El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que se señalarlas con el dedo.

Gabriel García Márquez - Cien años de soledad
August 20, 2023 at 9:43 PM
As we will see, it did not succeed. In this way Pampa learned the lesson every creator must learn, even God himself. Once you had created your characters, you had to be bound by their choices. You were no longer free to remake them according to your own desires.

Salman Rushdie - Victory City
August 14, 2023 at 9:39 AM